Hoi,
Wikimedias development is centred on one skin. This used to be monobook and
it is now vector. The question if a community may elect to be conservative /
retro / different ignores this issue. There will be some effort to maintain
other skins as well but as history has shown, bit rot will creep in. New
functionality will not be designed to work with other skins.
As it is there is very little communities can ask to be implemented for
them. A good example is the Babel extension that is wished for by many
communities.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 28 June 2010 19:58, Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com> wrote:
(I'd argue
that changing the skin to vector is a strategic decision by
WMF and cannot be overruled by local communities - but that's something
a system administrator has to decide.)
I'd say the system administrators will do as the foundation (board
perhaps? or some other organ) says.
Having different looks on different wikipedias is raising some
identity questions, but I'd say that the simple fact that right now
en.wiki looks in a way and smaller wikis look differently is a hint
that the problem is not that serious. I'm really curious about the
outcome of this discussion, be it here or not :)
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